geology life on the. video on demand exceeds mine gold costs. are a sense for you now with the palm of your. grief a year on russia joins together with poland to commemorate the plane crash which killed the polish president since many of the country's political elites. also in the program a group of african leaders are headed to libya to try and ease the conflict between the government and rebels meantime nato draws ever more fire over blunders in its military operation live comment about that story coming up this hour. other world without the dollar top economists gather to discuss where the global economy is heading and the role of emerging countries.

ten pm saturday night here in moscow this is r.t. with me kevin though in welcome to the top story it was a fateful flight that killed the president of ninety five others a moral services have been taking place almost a year since the plane crash in western russia which claimed the lives of the polish media lech kaczynski and many top officials have been on their way to a commemoration ceremony for the victims of the nineteen fourteen forty captive massacre occurred by stalin secret police is a country without the crushing force. it was a day to remember solemnly here in smiley and i delegate over a hundred people mostly relatives of the victims of the catastrophe gathered at the side where the polish to believe one fifty four plane crashed a year ago carrying president live catchin skis why. maria and many other of the

country's political and military elite well today the current polish president's wife on the come out all had a delegation this polish delegation in the beginning there was a flower lane ceremony here at the size of the plane crash and there was also a mass observed here and then they had it to the kathleen massacre site only some twenty five kilometers from here and it's very important to remember what was the parkers behind the tree which actually never happens all the polish high ranking officials last year that was to corroborate something which carrots huge emotional scars for the people of poland the cut the massacre where twenty two thousand polish officers the country's elite were slaughtered by stalin's secret police and covered there at the beginning of world war two and to take up the news a symbol of a double tragedy for the polish people now what schools dignified handling of the catastrophe aftermath has been very well received by the people of poland but

a year on differences over the best a geisha is findings opened up between moscow and warsaw and they're not likely to have a quick fix april seventh twenty turn in the spring sunshine blood thinner putin and donald warner victims of the massacre many find it hard to believe as a two hundred years of mutual amity between russia and poland had been washed away with tears. ah but brash tears were to fall on the soil just three days later the whole polish nation was sent into mourning their president government religious leaders and other members of the country's elite gun cutting has become a symbol of two polish tragedies and while the first we can judge only from history books the second unfolded in front of us almost broadcast in real time the plane

catastrophe showed our generation of russians and poles those who didn't witness the second world war how it is to suffer a national tragedy. there was however a twist of irony it was these new catastrophe that healed many of the wounds of the past the symbolic hug was just the beginning a year of unprecedented joint work to find the cause of the crash followed my experience with the russian investigators has been very good they're very high quality organization there is no question about this the commander the captain of the polish craft is to blame for this tragedy. the facts though were hard to take for some the investigation was beginning to take on political overtones but it sampson poland to push the blame on to russia this report is a joke for poland exploiting the submissive and shoot of the government of going to my claim my claim my accusation and i would personally ask the question for the

traffic converse of why there were not so hot press crew the transcript of the pilot's last words show there were multiple warnings from the russian air traffic controllers not to land in peak pork and to have a reserve there built they couldn't for be the plane from landing because that would have been against international law poland disputes russia's findings and its holding its own investigation diplomacy and politics should not hamper the investigation of facts for us back to the most important. history suggests russia and poland may take their time to settle their differences especially against the background of a tragedy that such a high price was paid for the recent reconciliation even skeptics realize it would be a shame for it to be tainted once again by division and scapegoating existing aggress

childer r t. the smiley inscription. efforts of better relations between moscow and warsaw were marred by a political struggle within poland that's the view of prefer certain inner but cut off who spoke to me she's from university an expert on russia of eurasia. after the kind of frequency of usual started around the decision for instance to have the inquiry together to accept from the russian side to move more intensively into question the captain and so on and so on and the relation has been hijacked by cornish internal policy and that's why i think the main problem it has nothing to do with it was basically a fight for poor work inside oh poor and of course as you know very well when you have a difficult electoral campaign and when you have political forces were obviously and are going to speak especially to watts from the brother of the former presidents towards the prime minister to ask you hard just plot you can before seen

it means of the tragedy was used to sit up one was in a soft. and for the other part watching news of the brotherhood kaczynski to be from the heart and coming back digging constantly and putting into a kind of forum or your thoughts. and for a while just sort of this weekend will be reporting and bringing you special coverage of all the commemoration ceremonies will be looking at how both poland and russia are coming together to remember the tragedy and how the details of the crash came to light. is it not enough. when it's something really. what you want to get down to brass. we bring you our special coverage here. in the place already synonymous with tragedy the world witnessed another disaster that left a country devastated. but united nations grief.

questionable. libyan leader colonel gadhafi has appeared in public for the first time in five days it was shown on state t.v. inspecting a school in the capital tripoli were groups of inventive western slogans meanwhile a group of african leaders heading to libya in attempts to b.d.a. the conflict between the government of the opposition did another development british warplanes of hit seven pro government tanks and called into the u.k.'s ministry of defense. saying its popularity wane among rebels after recent deadliest drugs from their positions how to use the asli as the latest trip. they transmedia should over its military operations here in libya are coming under more and more fire for being ineffective and for creating mistakes it is now nine days since nato took over command of military operations here and in the last week alone we've witnessed two separate nato air strikes that have left in total more than twenty

opposition fighters did and several dozen injured now as you can well imagine the tensions here are running high particularly because the nato secretary general why would grating be loss of life has not come out and said that he is sorry for these in strikes essentially what nato is arguing is that it was not aware that the rebel fighters were using tanks prior to these airstrikes and that of mistook the fighters in the duffys when now we're hearing a very different argument coming from the rebel commanders they say that they did notify those who beforehand that they had some twenty tanks in their position and that they would move into the frontline around the city of here a little bit towards a break up with those tanks and also seems rather questionable why nato was not aware that the rebel fighters had tanks because there has been footage circulating now for weeks showing these opposition fighters with heavy weaponry that includes tanks and the other argument that nature is putting forward is that the situation on the ground is extremely fluid it says that the front line keeps seesawing

forwards and backwards that is a constant flow of heavy machinery of tanks and it's the coming so difficult for the. to actually tell who's who on the ground now for days now we have been witnessing eighteen moralization and mung the opposition forces and that is now turning into anger they say that nato is not doing enough it's making a lot of mistakes and it's also neglecting its operations here they said it they do not understand why nato has not been able to convince his forces from advancing some one hundred miles into rebel territory and why and that is true because right at the moment and up his forces are holding the upper hand in terms of fighting on the ground. his policy in reporting from the libyan capital there was trying to get more of a handle of the latest and bring in lawrence davidson is professor of middle east history at west chester university of pennsylvania pretty vinci thanks for being on the program have been reports that some government tanks were destroyed by nato forces today as the bombardments continue as you see it how do you gauge the

success of this three week operation so far well it hasn't been very successful i mean if the goal. were is to facilitate the victory of the rebels rather to protect civilians and i suspect regime change was in fact the goal then they haven't succeeded and they're not going to succeed unless they can turn the rebel force into a viable unit it. can take growing he's already. made it best. and so what next and where is it going to go are we any closer do you think to seeing coalition ground troops center in libya. well there's a lot here in the united states there's enormous pressure for the americans not to get involved in that though there is pressure for the americans to increase

the kind of firepower bat that they can bring to bear in the air they want to upscale that i don't think that you're going to get european ground troops in there very easily certainly them or i would be very surprised if the americans put them in. i don't know what the french would do or the british but it seems to me to be a very popular kind of move so essentially we we put foot into it without a sort of game plan as to how this thing might work out i mean the contingency plans weren't there for this professor up as the fighting continues so the politics now that african countries are trying to mediate a conflict that's continuing across this weekend as we speak probably likely to make any positive progress towards peace do you think well they might i mean i think the libyan forces the libyan government. is probably willing

to cut some sort of compromise deal but it's going to keep kentucky in place and it's going to. keep the libyan government and control the oil fields i mean that's the kind of compromise they're willing to make and give them more time to be said. to the rebel territories but they're not going to let them come away with the oil and they're not going to let them come away with any kind of military victory so far the americans are the nato force is willing to take that kind of compromise deal it's problematic i mean coffee you're going to leave the place where he's a very very vengeful fellow i mean you push him he's going to push back and so we don't want to see anymore airplanes flying at the sky i wonder what the allied forces are making of this is the. right thing the next libya contact group meeting

on the thirteenth couple of days time to discuss the foreign intervention do you think countries involved in this military campaign are as determined as they were to press ahead all the name of protecting the libyan people. i think there's a lot of confusion and when you get confusion light you've got you you have it even on the ground in libya you're going to start to look for scapegoats so i think in the near future unless someone can take this in hand we have the americans or the french or the british or whoever was somebody can take this in hand and i think in the near future you're going to see a lot of name calling and finger pointing and it is going to get really embarrassing thanks be on the program tonight professor large davidson's appreciate it. right. and still to come in the program whatever happened to the space race we . see it it's too expensive there's nothing more to do in outer space

well as those more to do but is it worth doing. anyway is humanity to trouble down the world's problems to care about the final frontier any more good question the residents gauging reaction to that one bit later also the pipeline the sea in the pipeline we travel see first hand now the progress in the construction of north stream a project that promises to transform energy ties between russia and europe. next to other major financial players from around the world the debate in the future of the global economy in the iconic u.s. town of bretton woods the summit held by billionaire philanthropist george soros is focusing on the place that emerging markets will have in any new world order of his or a list of reports from the venue for. so far the themes that we've heard are not so much what needs to take place going forward but that something needs to change in a new new way of thinking about the global economy and the financial order and the tools that people have to use in that countries have to use need to change there

needs to be new thinking going forward one of the main issues that we've heard from already is something that the original bretton woods conference held here stablished remember back in one thousand nine hundred four countries all met here to decide on a global economic framework and that was the time that the u.s. dollar was named the reserve currency and countries peg their exchange rate to it which is the framework that holds today and it's something that's coming under pressure and yesterday we heard george soros say that one of the big questions is if the u.s. dollar should still be the reserve currency and in fact he said other currencies already are kind of taking its place that it no longer is the main reserve currency that the euro has a place in the economy that kind of fills that role or could and so much diversification has happened with other currencies and also with commodities like gold and oil and so that's one of the real questions that bankers are asking here maybe the u.s. dollar and the united states in its place that it had when this was a you know polar world back in the one nine hundred forty s.

the thinking that that's outdated and that a new framework needs to emerge that takes into account the developing economies which have been the economies that have grown at a quick clip and emerged as powers over the last several years including the bric nations of brazil russia india and china and even yesterday we heard a few times about how china has weathered the financial crisis much better than others and it's been the real winner out of the financial crisis and of globalization fast larry summers yesterday about this about what role these kind of conferences with these major players you know someone like soros anything he says pretty much makes news and is influential when it comes to finance when it comes to the economy so i asked what role these kind of things can have and he said that they do in kind of a cumulative way that they're often the precursor to the actual policy that. get question forward years later. is there a list or reporting when as we've mentioned the conference in bretton woods is being led by george soros is institute for new economic thinking its executive director robert johnson told us the first thing the financial elite should do is to

restore public trust in the system. i do not think people trust the government after the financial bailouts i do not think they trust large but we have to take that seriously that we have to grow out of my regaining the trust. to look at themselves in a credible or they embrace a new kind of social responsibility to rethink it's the role of an expert and i'm certainly concerned about the united states which is in the center of the world system the middle class in the united states is feeling compressed they're experiencing what you might call a social growth while trying to three percent of most are doing very very well almost all of the gains from one hundred seventy nine to the present perhaps more than a hundred percent have gone to the top one percent and that's just not that's not sustainable and that is not inspiring of trust people who can tell you what you mark or look at your ideas or your ideology or the proof of the pudding is in the evening when everybody at the park makes a lot of experts seem to espouse their point of view or not to you care of the

entire society and you won't really trust and so you start reflecting the interests of everyone. as more of the conference in bretton woods on our web site out of look at the latest from the washington bureau of the two that comes with dating fully you'll find out why some experts believe america is facing of brevity crisis as u.s. corporations are funny tax loopholes overseas to squirrel away their profits but about that from us online tonight. the computer hackers who were hacked off with the state of the gaming industry find out why they're taking on sony and its best selling playstation as a story that i read also in the mix it is the week ahead he's got a recipe for special cosmic cocktails about the fiftieth anniversary of becoming the first man in space blastoff the fall over to our home which tells you how to make this garden beautiful.

if. you. but more one thousand kilometers in length from the seabed it's been dubbed as one of the most ambitious marine projects ever russia's nord stream pipeline which is rapidly nearing completion will provide western europe with a new level of energy security but if they go god may went to the construction site to gauge the progress. common in middle of a multi golding so i put behind me is a key point and one of the most ambitious engineering projects undertaken anywhere in the world over the last few years which you can see just going into the ground and then out to sea to find me as the north stream pipe as the world's longest underwater gas pipe as the world's thickets and it's also one operates under the most pressure it's

a flagship project for russia for over ten years before construction could actually begin here either it's going to cost over seven billion euros at least. russia is now proving that it is capable of initialising and carrying out such large scale projects taking part in all the phases starting from moodily constructing and operating. this is no ordinary metal pipe it's got to be able to withstand extreme conditions the thickness of the walls it's four centimeters it's able to not break down if there is a cold temperature of more than minus fifty also it looks kind of solid but it's actually extremely flexible it's able to swing in a range of more than a thousand meters and in fact at the moment is being laid down on a ship about a thousand kilometers away near the coast of germany the world's most powerful compressor station which is just one kilometer back there will be forcing the gas

to go at huge pressure so you don't need any kind of other compression stations in the middle of the pipe on its way to realize ation the north stream project placed a lot of objections now one pipe objection was from vajra mentalists those in sweden and finland three of the country three you see by the wish the project all very pretty well worried about the impact of the project on the sea bad and also what might have happened if there were any kind of so i think emergencies well in this respect gazprom under contract has not only gone and done everything to make sure that there are no. nothing happened sort of quiet could have gone a step beyond. out of the baltic has been damaged already by previous wars and previous pollution and are actually going out of their way to restore. the condition but other objection was political russia already supplies nearly a third of europe's girls crushing a third of the business what was going to bring a new level of security awarded because of conflicts which are good transit

countries with ukraine and you have class but basically held the whole of europe hostages are one transit country and recent events in the arab world are playing into the hands of those behind this project with the instability there. needs north stream more. or less a corresponding palling world news route this saturday night at least two people have been killed in clashes between egypt's progress for movements of the ruling military troops aren't his baton of firing live ammunition into the air descended on talia's square to disperse ongoing protests the demonstrators angry over like a democratic reform to respond. in japan a steel wall and a fence being installed around the fukushima nuclear power plant to prevent more radioactive water leaking into the pacific ocean the operator tepco has been criticized by the fishing industry and by neighboring south korea for dumping a low level radioactive water into the sea tepco says it will start to transfer

highly radioactive water from reactor number two on sunday people close story for you a gunman was killed seven and injured fifteen in a shooting rampage near amsterdam he ran through a shopping randomly firing an automatic weapon before turning the gun on himself it comes just a week after another shootout in the same town where two people were killed a move to. a fire in a shopping center in northwest china causing problems not it's killed one it's injured twelve others so far over two hundred firefighters have been dispatched to put out the huge blaze in evacuate people still trapped inside they still battling to contain the flames electricity gas has been shut off of the complex to stop the phone from spreading because of the fire hasn't read the terms of. russia's preparing to celebrate bang kinds first foray into space as the u.s. retires its iconic space shuttle fleet with no replacement in sight our resident then takes to the streets of new york to find out just what happened to america's

space ambitions. this month marks the fifty year anniversary of the first human has not yuri gagarin to ever fly into space so whatever happened to the space race this week let's talk about that are you proud that man once walked on the moon. and i proud that man was walked out of my proud that man once crossed the atlantic ocean and found america i think it's it's a good thing for people who for mankind to do new things and explore and learn no one cares and i'm going into space anywhere is that sad no i think we've done it been there seen it's too expensive there's nothing more to do in outer space well as those more to do but is it worth doing you don't think it is i don't know why it why did it why the culture used to think it was so important and now are like been there done being here barry is you know we've got up areas now we've got our

boundaries it's just too expensive you don't think of people living on another planet would be breaking a boundary well it would i suppose there's far too many problems on the earth now to pay you've been thinking about social space but weren't there just as many problems back then. perhaps there were. just so used to it. television. cinema. just shows social space all the time so it doesn't seem to be so spectacular anymore i think it was it was a new a new or new presidency and who administration you know everything was new so i got kind of what obama ran on right so see what must be a great time for him to say let's really explore it be something better than nothing he'd see that have been a no no him no barfield bomber should do what john f. kennedy did start a whole new space will groom really get out there really for more the more. you

know remote no do you think that people would be into that as much as they were back in the day or are they too into the internet and facebook i feel. a lot of people's focus on facebook and internet so what's changed is that we used to focus on it and now we don't seem to care and on the public technology we understand a lot more about the universe through our telescopes and other resources so but we haven't been to mars you know but we know with there are a lot of ways we haven't you know that will reveal time travel no we haven't but how do you know that's even possible until you try to speculate i guess but i will say why are we more focused on things like the internet and facebook because we're dumb yourselves down unless you're one of those people that believe man in space was the hub the bottom line is that no matter what happened to the space race we can always say that we did take that one giant leap for mankind.

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